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DESCRIPTION OF TASK
UNIX COMMANDS / YOU TYPE IN


1.Create a subdirectory for all your
Geog.207 related materials
login
dante% cd public_html
dante% mkdir 207 [make a directory "207"]
ctrl x
Y (for Yes)
Enter
dante% exit


2. To move your introductory E-mail
message from dante to a new dante (text) file in your public_html (Web) directory:
highlight your E-mail messages in dante
go into "EDIT" (on Bar at the Top)
click "copy"
open your screen
cd public_html/207 [change to subdirectory 207]
pico intro (empty page opens)
click "edit"
click "paste" [your E-mail message should appear on the page in the same format as it appeared in E-mail]
ctrl x [close the open file]
Y for Yes [Yes, you want to save!]
Enter


3. To copy your original
public_html index file ("Home Page") into your 207 (sub-) directory
in order to make use of its HTML code (not its figure)
and to use it as a Table-of-Contents Page for your
Geog.207 efforts:
Login
dante% cd public_html
dante% cp index.html 207 [copy index.html file into your 207 directory]
dante% cd 207 [you are nowing down to your 207 subdirectory]
dante% pico index.html [different from the above text file, this is an HTML file which needs this .html specification]


4. To get into your "introductory statement" (intro),
change or expand it, and get out of the intro file
Login dante
Password
dante% cd public_html/207
dante% pico intro
make changes
ctrl x
Y (for Yes)
enter
saul% exit


5. To move a file (or change the name of a file)
within your 207 directory/folder:
(e.g. to make a formerly hidden file to an open file)
assuming you are in your 207 directory already:
dante% mv secretfilename newopenfilename


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